ANAHEIM — The Ducks gave away points in overtime and shootouts last season, when they had 13 losses after regulation play, but Coach Randy Carlyle said he is determined to avoid a repeat in 2018-19. Judging by one frenetic, 5-minute extra period so far this season, he’s gotten his wish.

“I think we were negligent last year at the beginning of the year,” Carlyle said. “If you look at the 3-on-3 in the overtime record, I think we were 0-5 to start, so it was kind of a thorn in our side. What we’ve tried to do is pick some points out that we’ll bring to our players and practice them.”

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Carlyle said he had hoped to cover a few basic principles of 3-on-3 play during training camp, but he didn’t get to them until Tuesday, a day after the Ducks played a solid, attacking OT period against the Detroit Red Wings. The Ducks didn’t score, but they didn’t give up a score, either.

The Ducks defeated the Red Wings in a shootout.

What was new during OT was a clear sense that the Ducks had a plan, and they stuck with it. They maintained possession and weren’t afraid to skate in reserve in order to change personnel and get fresh bodies on the ice. They attacked and also defended with a sense of purpose.

It was a dramatic change from the start of 2017-18.

“We’ve got some things we’d like our team to stick with,” Carlyle said. “We think we can have more success than we had historically with it if we stay to those staples and have the right people on the ice at the right time. There are a couple of rules we tried to put in place.

“It made some sense that we apply some rules for our team.”

WORKING OVERTIME (PART 2)

Carlyle said he and the coaching staff watched videos of other teams to get ideas and stole only the best. Monday, the Ducks might have been aided by the fact that their lineup included six rookies, players with fresh, young legs, rather than the usual group of veterans.

Carlyle certainly wasn’t afraid to play Isac Lundestrom, an 18-year-old center from Sweden who was the Ducks’ first-round draft pick last June. Lundestrom, making his NHL debut, nearly won the game in OT, but was denied on a point-blank try by Detroit goalie Jimmy Howard.

Troy Terry, a 21-year-old rookie, scored the only goal in the shootout and the Ducks won 3-2.

“With young players, you’re always trying to create these little tests along the way,” Carlyle said. “It obviously depends on the success that goes with it or the failure that goes with it. Do you pass or fail the test? Is it a chicken before the egg theory?

“If you don’t use them, are they not allowed the opportunity to grow? When you do use them and they get scored upon, are you going to go back to them? It’s all those theories that you’ve got to filter out. We know we’ve got some skilled young players. We know they’re up-tempo players.

“They’re young players and we don’t want to put too much pressure on them.”

SILFVERBERG’S HOT START

Jakob Silfverberg became the first Duck since 2014-15 to score five points in his first three games of the season. Silfverberg had one goal and four assists going into Wednesday’s game against the Arizona Coyotes at Honda Center.